http://store.steampowered.com/news/4101/
All PC versions leverage leading services for gamers around the world.Pre-purchasers receive original Mafia® now.
Valve and 2K Games today announced an agreement to power all PC versions of the highly anticipated Mafia® II with a host of Steamworks features. All Mafia II players will enjoy the benefits of the Steamworks features included in all PC versions, such as auto-updating, Steam Achievements, Statistics, downloadable content, and more.
Customers who pre-order the standard or Digital Deluxe Edition of Mafia II through select digital retailers, including Steam, will be given a free digital copy of the award-winning original Mafia® game that they can access and play now.
"Using Steamworks to power Mafia II has been a great benefit for 2K Games and our development team," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "It's meant that we can spend more time creating content and a great experience for our customers because we know that Steam and Steamworks are enabling these important features within the game."
"Mafia II is joining Sid Meier's Civilization® V as the next title to use Steamworks from 2K Games," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "Our focus for Steam is on building services that create value for our customers and for creators, and Mafia II, with its all-new game engine and inclusion of Steamworks, is a great example of that."
Mafia II is rated M for Mature by the ESRB and will be available in North America on August 24, 2010 and internationally beginning August 27, 2010. For more information visit www.steamgames.com.
2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
About 2KFounded in 2005, 2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment software games for the console, PC, and handheld gaming systems through its three divisions: 2K Games, 2K Sports, and 2K Play. 2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including first-person shooters, action, role-playing, real-time strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment. The 2K label has some of the most talented development studios in the world today, including Firaxis Games, Visual Concepts, Irrational Games, 2K Marin, 2K Australia, 2K Czech, Cat Daddy Games, and 2K China. In just a few short years, 2K launched the 2007 Game of the Year - BioShock®; continued the award-winning Sid Meier's Civilization® series; delivered the #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise with NBA® 2K10*; and broke new ground in the family entertainment market with its multi-million unit selling hit Carnival Games. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). For more information, please visit www.2K.com.
* According to 2009-2010 GameRankings.com and The NPD Group
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I should add that I just bought it from Steam.
I will buy the first mafia when it's released here.
Getting mine from Amazon.
Mafia II
Does it make a difference? Retail Mafia II will install and play with steam, won't it?
If you bothered to actually click the link, you'd see it's the PS3 version.
But yes, 2kgames is going full Steamworks. They're doing it for Civ 5, so why not Mafia II.
You can complain all you want, but until Steam does something stupid like take a 50% cut from the publishers or someone comes up with a better alternative (waiting on you Reactor), games will be using Steamworks.
Not if you get the console version
EDIT: Ninja'd
You are right. Every PC version will benefit from Steamworks features like auto updates, achievements and more.
I suppose a steam emulator would be helpful here.
Impulse is my PC game service now and in the future not STEAM.
Im going to buy this but only because of the deal they did with playboy.*
*This might be a joke.
Steam is nessesary for any true gamer these days, tis the nature of things.
Yeah, resistance is futile, blah blah.
Actually Steamworks is now on the ps3 too.
coreimpulse said "WhatEVER, I was like thats SOOO steam and she was like I KNOW!" (near enough)
No seriously. I mean Ubi has some very good games but nothing ultra special, mostly just sequels.
Battlenet is for Wowers, koreans and Diablo fans.
Impulse is for Sins and Elemental.
Steam on the other hand has killer game after killer game. If you refuse each companies 'platform' (whatever the specifcs) you lose out but with Steam you lose BIG TIME.
Isnt that a monopoly?
And if you actually knew anything about Steamworks, you'd know you can pick and choose what parts you want to use or not. PS3 version is just syncing Steam achievements, cloud save files, and downloading of updates. People would take you a lot more seriously if you actually read links, did some research, and didn't think D2D became an affiliate of Steam.
@Aractain
Somewhere along the line, these people stopped being gamers and suddenly became white knights of the fair digital distribution league. They'll all either give in and play the games, or sit their twiddling their thumbs as game after game gets released on Steam. Either way, we win, because we don't care who distributes what and will play a game as long as its worth the money and the hassle of whatever DRM they decide to throw on it.
No. Thats just superior business, Steam don't have ALL the games, they don't have the cheapest games. They simply have the BEST games (As in most succsesful, most desired by large population not score/quality wise).
Impulse needs a killer game. They have killer apps for the software market which makes them very big in that market, obviously they can't afford to make one themselves and most of the people who can either have thier own stuff or are going with the biggest platform (steam). If that gets to the point where 50% of games are steamworks only, then it would be a monopoly I think.
Convincing the publishers - so happily jumping on the Steam bandwagon - to embrace Impulse Reactor will undoubtedly take all Brad's considerable persuasive skills. Will they be willing to take that step? That is the question. The unfortunate reality is, both sides (publishers plus extremely vocal Steam supporters) seem to have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
I love how they make it sound like they're doing you a favor...
Not that I care one way or the other, I just wish they'd be honest with the fans instead of this PR BS!
"Were adding it to steam so you can't steal because we don't trust you *Fake Smile*"
I can feel the love in the air... No wait, That's the smell of money.
No buy for me. Bye bye 2K with you stupid deals. Double no buy because of PS3 exclusive DLC.
I'm the guy actually playing all the games that come out. You will buy Elemental. I will buy Elemental, Civ 5, Fallout:New Vegas and Portal 2.
It'd be like you and I both calling ourselves lovers of fine cuisine, but when the foie gras is brought out, you protest about the inhumane treatment of the geese. The filet mignon comes out, but because it's not free-range and organic, you won't touch it. Lobster comes up. What? The chef threw the lobster straight into boiling water? Won't touch. You end up eating nothing but the organic salad at the beginning of the meal while I've eaten the whole thing. Technically, you can still be a lover of food, but it's hard to swallow.
"the rights of their money and their time versus the capitalist industry only interested in milking you of as much money as possible"
Did you write that with a serious face on? What is Impulse? It is part of the "capitalist industry only interested in milking you of as much money as possible." It just goes about it a different way than Steam does. To you, and obviously a good amount of people on this board, Impulse's methods are better than Steam's.
But Steam's cashflow doesn't lie: a lot of gamers simply don't care.
As long as they can play the game, and the game was worth the money to them, they will continue to buy them, regardless of whatever principles you protest against. I don't care if Steam gets a monopoly. I don't care if Steam goes out of business. If the games work for me, and the games are worth my money, I will continue to buy them.
So then to be a "gamer" you have to play every single game that comes out? Well then I guess 99.9999% of the world is out, if not 100%. There might be one guy, maybe, who has actually played every game that has ever come out.
Please see my fine dining analogy above. Way to straw man my argument, btw. I never said you had to play every game. Who would you consider more of a traveler: a guy who visits Mexico and Canada, or someone who has been all over the world in addition to Mexico and Canada? Maybe in your eyes they are equal, but I know who I'd be asking for vacation advice from.
Your fine dining analogy is even worse. Vegitarians can't be "lovers of fine cuisine" becuase they don't eat any of that stuff. If the guy visiting Mexico and Canada does so 30 times every year, and the guy who's been all over the world only travels once a year, who's more of a traveler?
Since when does eating a few select "fine" foods qualify you as a lover of fine cuisine? Since when does playing all the AAA titles make you a gamer? Why does missing out on a couple of them mean you're not a gamer?
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